The benefits of registering your songs via Ditto Music Publishing go beyond collecting publishing royalties. It's also essential for protecting your copyrights and ensuring that your songs are eligible for sync licensing opportunities.
Copyright protection
Registering your songs with an international network of societies will protect them from fraudulent claims and ensure that the correct parties and rights owners are recognised at copyright level.
Most collection societies operate a first-past-the-post system when setting copyright
ownership to a musical work, so it's important to submit authoritative registrations as
soon as you have agreed the allocation of shares.
Failure to register your musical work in a timely manner can leave your songs open to spurious claims, and the burden will always be placed on the newest claimant to provide evidence to support their claim. This can lead to lengthy payment delays and costly legal disputes.
Ditto Music Publishing shares your audio files and publishing metadata with music
recognition services that work directly with collection societies to establish copyright ownership of songs broadcast across a range of international radio and tv services.
Sync licensing
Publishing registration is also essential if you want to put your songs forward for sync opportunities.
All works in the Ditto Music Publishing catalogue are made available to our sync team and we actively pitch works that fit specific client briefs. Broadcasters and licensing agencies actively avoid songs that have not been registered to a collection society, as they need to clear usage of the song with the registered copyright owners. No registration = no sync!